Members of the Worker's Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting a 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Title: Members of the Worker's Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting a 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940
Date Created: February 27, 1940
Date: 1940-02-27
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Members of the Worker’s Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Gathering 1st & Soto demanding [checks???]
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Unemployment - SRA - Gathering of people at 1st and Soto St., demanding checks; Walter Chambers with protesting workers; Picketing SRA at 22nd and San Pedro Sts.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Workers Alliance of America
California. State Relief Administration
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Pickets--California--Los Angeles
Economy
Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles
Labor unions
Activism
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Government

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00280291
Manifest url

Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights Holder: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .